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John bishop of Mylasa (tenth/eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

A patriarchal cross (X on crossings) on three steps; fleurons arise from the base as high as the first crossbar. At the upper quarters, crosslets of dots (). Within a border of dots, circular inscription.

ΚΕΟΗΘΕΙΤΣΔ...

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.

Ι̅Ε
ΠΙΣΚΟ
.ΜΥ
ΛΑΣΗ,

Ἰωάννῃ ἐπισκόπῳ Μυλάσης

Obverse

A patriarchal cross (X on crossings) on three steps; fleurons arise from the base as high as the first crossbar. At the upper quarters, crosslets of dots (). Within a border of dots, circular inscription.

ΚΕΟΗΘΕΙΤΣΔ...

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.

Ι̅Ε
ΠΙΣΚΟ
.ΜΥ
ΛΑΣΗ,

Ἰωάννῃ ἐπισκόπῳ Μυλάσης

Accession number BZS.1947.2.113
Diameter 19.0 mm; field: 15.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 71.1.
Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 522.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἰωάννῃ ἐπισκόπῳ Μυλάσης.

Lord, help your servant John bishop of Mylasa.

Commentary

Mylasa (ἡ Μύλασα or τὰ Μύλασα [this is the antique form, Zgusta, 406]: modern Milâs) was a bishopric suffragan to Aphrodisias/Stauroupolis as early as the 5th century; its representatives attended the councils of 787, 869, and 879. It appears in all notitiae from the 7th to the 13th century. In the 12th century, it became the center of the theme "of Mylasa and Melanoudion." See Laurent, Corpus V/1, 384; Fedalto, 200; REB 29 (1971) 309-12; ODB II, 1428.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 2: South of the Balkans, the Islands, South of Asia Minor (Open in Zotero)
  • Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
  • Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen (Open in Zotero)
  • Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)